Quotes About Art

Things looked funny because my pictures depend on an emotional state... I know this is true and I thought about this for a long time. Somehow it made me feel very, very good.

Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.

People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.

That's the way Stravinsky was. Bup, bup, bup, bup. The poor guy's dead now. Play it legato.

Isn't it funny the way some combinations of words can give you--almost apart from their meaning--a thrill like music?

Diana Rigg is built like a brick mausoleum with insufficient flying buttresses.

I can only think of a handful of artists that can make a funny painting or a funny sculpture without it feeling coined in someway.

Modern dancing is old fashioned.

I guess I didn't enjoy drawing very much. It was like homework.

Long note? Yes. Make it seem short.

When I die, so does hip hop.

It's funny now how much we look at - whatever you want to call it: art, design, culture stuff, film - online, and how in the online world, you're instantly global.

There's never any graffiti in the hotel. Although in the Gents a couple of weeks ago I did see someone had drawn a lady's part. Quite detailed. The guy obviously had talent.

I do try to compress a lot of information into what I do. It's funny.

Doing stand-up takes the fun out of being funny.

I wanted to be a "serious artist." Serious artists didn't tend to be funny. But that didn't get me a lot of attention. And just growing older, you can't help it, you take things less seriously.

When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.

A lot of my early pictures are, I think, quite funny. And these days I tend to look for comedy more and more.

The real trick for me as a director is to make sure that people don't start pushing because the harder you push as a perform the less funny it becomes.

It's a funny semantic turn - when someone paints a landscape, no one says they "borrowed" it, only that they painted it.

To be creative and spontaneous, you have to live with imperfection.

It's funny how making odd noises can get you into strange situations sometimes.

I had funny memories, too, but the music was more important to me than anything else.

There's been so many different types of musicals and it's a funny genre because there's a fine line between clever and stupid. It really takes a genius to know how to do it.